by Calvin Sun | May 15, 2022 | Blitzkrieg!!!, How Did You Do That?, Mexico, Mo' Money Mo' Problems, Serendipitous!, Weekend Trips
Probably the most visited site in the world that I have never been, until this weekend. Upon a destination wedding invitation last year by my friend Norman Chen, whom I last saw when we stopped in Chicago on our USA Road Trip back in August 2020....
by Calvin Sun | Nov 8, 2020 | Mexico, November 2020: Baja California Sur
Unforgettable photos like these above were taken by my travel buddy on the trip Pier Nirandara. On the shores of Magdalena Bay in the Pacific Ocean — far from the reaches of COVID-19 — there lies an isolated and remote fishing village called Puerto...
by Calvin Sun | Nov 1, 2020 | Mexico, November 2020: Baja California Sur
TLDR; Weigh the opportunity cost of travel (as a frontline healthcare worker I may burn out/can’t take care of anyone safely if I don’t recharge appropriately…and I have taken practice steps with small domestic trips before leaping on a trip abroad)...
by Calvin Sun | Apr 24, 2014 | Mexico, Spring 2014: Pirates of the Caribbean
I never seen water as blue as Cancun’s. Hanging out at Oasis Sens, and just relaxing before I begin another adventure tomorrow. Here goes nothing.Internet is reported to be unreliable where I’m going, so this might be the last update in...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 17, 2011 | Community Service, December 2010: A Clinic in Mexico, Mexico, One Small House
As of 12:00pm EST, Monday January 17th, the community free clinic we were building in Tijuana, Mexico has opened: - At time of posting in NYC, it was -4 °C - Humidity: 37% | Wind Speed: 8km/hr | Cloud Cover: partly...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 4, 2011 | December 2010: A Clinic in Mexico, Epiphanies on the Road, Mexico, Post-travel Reflections
3 months of fundraising and 4 days of construction later… I don’t believe any of us fully grasped the impact of what we were doing until we had left. And even now, in the nascent days of our Tijuana-withdrawal, I myself still haven’t fully...
